Harvard SDS plans noon to five hour sit in University Hall
Harvard students returned to classes after a weeklong postponement as the SDS voted to reenter University Hall for a five hour, non violent sit in to push demands to end ROTC ties and university military links. The Afro-American Society joined and urged faculty to form a black studies committee.
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Students For A Democratic Society
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Harvard
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Harvard Stadium
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Afro Society
Fist Fights Break Up Rally for Decency in Baltimore
A teen rally titled Rally for Decency in Baltimore drew 45 000 people but broke into clashes between white and black youths. At least 200 injured and 133 arrested as about 650 police including riot units struggled to restore order.
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Baltimore
UPI
Spock on Revolt for Blacks Rights in Speech in Greeley
Dr. Benjamin Spock told a Colorado State College audience that black Americans have as much right to revolt as the early colonists. He warned social progress has not always come peacefully and cited suffrage and labor battles as examples. Police battled youths after a rally, with 200 stabbed or struck and 133 arrests for disorderly conduct.
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Greeley
Colo
UPI
Benjamin Spock
Spock
Colorado State College
Memorial Stadium
Greenmount Avenue
Stadium
Wade H. Poole
Poole
Emerson Julian
Hyman Pressman
Miami
Charles Moylan
Cold Wave Eases New England Flood Threat
New England faces a reduced flood threat as a cold snap slows melting snow. In Montague Massachusetts the Connecticut River crested at 32.1 feet then fell with no flooding expected. the Merrimack River also crested north of Concord but declined. Flood control dams and projects helped contain record depths, though lowland flooding along the Connecticut remains possible for several days.
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Boston
UPI
New England
Montague
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Merrimack
Concord
N.H
U.S
Burlington Patrolmen Seek Exclusive Bargaining Agent
Policemen asked Mayor Francis Cain to recognize the Patrolman's Association as the exclusive bargaining agent for wages and working conditions. Donald Veronneau, association president, urged the police commission to negotiate a collective bargaining contract. Veronneau said 29 eligible members, only one未joined. If recognized, the association would be the third bargaining unit among city employees alongside firefighters and other departments with AFSCME affiliates.
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Burlington
UPI
Francis Cain
Patrolman’s Association
Donald Veronneau
Police Commission
Veronneau
The
Firefighters Association
American Federation of State
Union and Fellows Gear Shaper set new three year accord
Springfield union members of Local 218 ratified a three year labor pact with Fellows Gear Shaper Co. The agreement provides immediate 10 cents an hour raise retroactive to December 28, 1968 and five cent raises in May this year May 1970 and March 1971. It also adds vacation, pension, insurance and fringe benefits. Local 218 won recognition as the bargaining agent last fall.
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Springfield
UPI
Fellows Gear Shaper Co
United Electrical Workers Union
Vermont Route 5 roadslide blocks one lane at Fairlee Bradford
The Vermont Highway Department reports a slide on Route 5 known as the Fairlee Ledges, closing one lane between Fairlee and Bradford in the upper Connecticut River Valley. A Burlington weather bulletin notes minor flooding near Lake Champlain due to rapid inflow and lake-mouth backups.
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Montpelier
UPR
Vermont Highway Department
Fairlee
Bradford
Connecticut River
Vermont
Burlington
Lake Champlain
Boy Feared Drowned After Cooper Brook Fall
Search teams resumed for Ramby Ainsworth of Hardwick feared drowned in Cooper Brook after reportedly slipping into the swollen stream Sunday afternoon while walking with his aunt.
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Hardwick
UPI
Ramby Ainsworth
Cooper Brook
Wendell Ainsworth
Four car crash kills Brattleboro man on Route 9
West Chesterfield New Hampshire UPI reports Richard A. St. Lawrence, 24, of Brattleboro Vermont, was fatally injured in a Sunday night four car collision on Route 9. He died while being transported to a Hanover hospital.
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West Chesterfield
N.H
UPI
Richard A. St. Lawrence
Brattleboro
Hanover
Rockefeller Proposes Food on the Table Program in New York
Governor Rockefeller unveils a $13.4 million state plan to fight malnutrition with expanded food stamps surplus food distribution and nutrition education for aid families plus a strike force to curb high food prices. Legislature weighs raising lawmakers expenses and Jules, with leaders eyeing chairmen and ranking members as possible targets.
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Albany
Rockefeller
Jules
Senate
Earl W. Brydges
Turbine-Powered Supertrain Tests Across New York State
A turbine powered supertrain capable of 170 miles per hour completed the first of two test runs from Buffalo to Albany in four hours and 45 minutes at 80 miles an hour. The Sikorsky division of United Aircraft built the train, which drew crowds during its several stops and will run again today from New York to Albany. Two identical turbo trains operate between Boston and New York, promising living room like comfort, spacious seating, spotless conditions and ample maneuvering room.
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Albany
Buffalo
Sikorsky Division
United Aircraft
New York
Boston
Pittsfield weighs two month weather service stop gap
The City Council funds a temporary municipal weather service for two months while pushing for county responsibility. Meteorologist Bulgarelli notes Berkshire County snow totals far exceed nearby federal stations in Albany, Hartford and Boston, with 103 inches this winter.
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Pittsfield
George J. Bulgarelli
Albany
Hartford
Boston
Berkshire County
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